The Newcastle KBS Diamonds hope they can provide better support for Kenneth Bjerre at Berwick in tonight's Premier League derby (7.0 start).

The brilliant young Dane returns to action nearly a fortnight after being concussed in a horrible crash in Glasgow.

Bjerre's tally of 14 points was the only bright spot for the KBS diamonds on their last visit to Shielfield Park when they were thrashed 62-30 in a British League Cup match back in April.

But this time Newcastle are bringing a six points advantage over the 3tmobile.net Bandits from June's League meeting at Brough Park.

They are also bringing a stronger line-up including Stuart Robson in the job-share role because Bjarne Pedersen is riding in Prague in tonight's Czech Grand Prix.

Berwick's Josef Franc is also in that Grand Prix having been granted a wild card for his home round of the series.

So the Bandits have booked Sheffield's Andrew Moore as a guest.

Pedersen will be back in Newcastle's colours tomorrow when both the KBS Diamonds and the Ultrafast Gems welcome Rye House to Brough Park for a Premier League and Conference League double header (5.0 start).

Newcastle manager George English said: "It'll be a busy couple of days for Kenneth on the track but he needs to prove he's ready for next weekend's World Under-21 Final.

"And I think we are in for exciting matches against both Berwick and Rye House. We accept we are the underdogs at Berwick but we owe our travelling supporters a much better display than we served up in April.

"Rye House's track is similar to ours so we can't take a home win for granted even though they've lost every away league match this year."

Somerset have confirmed the full-time return of Mario Jirout for the remaining weeks of the season.

Jirout has missed the bulk of the campaign after suffering multiple injuries in a car accident during the winter.

But he is back with the Rebels at the expense of Chris Manchester.

Promoter Andy Hewlett said: "Hopefully Mario can get back to the extremely entertaining rider he was before the accident."